Learn Nepali: Nepali alphabet chart and letters

Learning Nepali language

About Nepali

Nepali is one of the 22 languages in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution of India and an official language of Sikkim, and used in the Darjeeling hills of West Bengal. The 2011 Census counted 29.3 lakh people in India whose mother tongue it is. It is written in Devanagari. It was added to the Eighth Schedule in 1992.

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To go further: Bharatavani, the portal of India's languages run by the Central Institute of Indian Languages, has dictionaries, primers and books in Nepali.

• Sahitya Akademi: India's national academy of letters (Ministry of Culture): books, translations and the yearly awards in Nepali and the other languages of India

Sources: Census of India 2011, Language (Paper 1 of 2018), speakers of the scheduled languages; the Constitution of India, Eighth Schedule.